Projects
Nosce te ipsum. On literary engagements between apes and humans in literature after Darwin.
Beginning of funding
01.01.2011
End of funding
31.12.2013
In my project I examine literary meetings between apes and humans and how concepts of sameness and difference are used in a species discourse. I look at the ways in which literature has often created apes that are possible to dismiss, all in order to stabilize the human identity. But I also detect posthuman reevaluations in recent novels, where the preoccupation with difference is problematized.
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Fields of research
Literature and cultural studiesAnimal studies ; Mensch-Tier-Beziehung
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Contact
Amelie Björck
Institutions
Lunds Universitet / Lund University
Centre for Languages and Literature (SOL)
Subject Comparative Literature